It seems we now need to start watching for flying deer too.

[Blind Squirrel]

https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2014/05/26/family-ok-after-deer-falls-from-overpass-crashes-through-windshield/

 

[SacramentoMike]

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[airboss]

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Stupid Forrest Rats have always been suicidal and now they have figured how to do it from high places.

 

[RadioHowie]

"Conner says the family only had liability insurance on the car, meaning she’ll get no money from her insurance company. The car is totaled."

HUH??? A dented hood and broken windshield = "The car is totaled."???

Damn, I knew minivans were worthless, but dayum!!!

 

[infrared]

This was maybe thirty years ago, just after dusk; I once saw a deer trying to cross I-95 near Delaware. The first car in the slow lane ran up on the deer, and the deer went vertical to escape, maybe ten yards (meters) high, and landed nicely on the white lane lines. The next car in the slow lane came rushing past, and the deer did it again, almost crossing the faster lane in one tall bound. A passing car there instantly caused the deer to jump again, but it clipped the deer's hind legs at the launch, so the deer went up tumbling and twisting in mid-air. The deer crashed down in the fastest lane, just a few yards (meters) in front of a fast driver, who killed the deer, and his car. Most of the drivers who saw this could only report that a deer came down from the sky in front of them, and there was no overpass nearby. I watched it all, sitting on my old bike in a rest stop. I had no idea that deer could leap so high. The chain-link highway fencing was maybe three yards (meters) high, so that "barrier" was just a waste of steel, for the average deer.

Watch out for falling wildlife,

Infrared

 

[Fred W]

"Conner says the family only had liability insurance on the car, meaning she’ll get no money from her insurance company. The car is totaled."

Doesn't say what year the van was, but...

“I believe God was with me the whole time — he protected me, he preserved me for a reason,” she says.

Maybe He'll cover it? I mean, it was all His fault after all.

 

[RadioHowie]

^^^^^^^^^^^^^
HEATHEN!!!!!!!!!!

 

[TomInPA]

We have had members hit deer that carried liability and collision and still dis not have the bike covered. Deer hits are comprehensive. Be sure to have it!

Two weeks ago I had a deer encounter at high speed at the southeast Ohio ramble. Coming over a blind rise with a turn to the right, the deer was startled off the left side of the road and jumped in front of me, then lost traction with its rear legs and continued to paw its way across the road with the front legs. The ABS brakes did what they were supposed to do, and I clean missed it (barely), and the two guys riding behind me, missed me (thanks Joe and Bob!). Glad I've never encountered one jumping off a bridge.

 

[frankenfeejeer]

Thats amazing!!

 

[Redfish Hunter]

We have had members hit deer that carried liability and collision and still did not have the bike covered.

I call B.S.

I have seen many deer and I have yet to see one with insurance. Unless those deer are smarter than the ones we have down here, I don't see how they can get insurance and how they could pay the premiums.

 

[Fred W]

I carry an uninsured ruminant coverage on my policy, and have had the unfortunate opportunity to exercise it.

PS - Tom is right, Bambi carnage was covered by comprehensive, which for me meant a lower deductible.

 

[gixxerjasen]

We have had members hit deer that carried liability and collision and still did not have the bike covered.

I call B.S.

I have seen many deer and I have yet to see one with insurance. Unless those deer are smarter than the ones we have down here, I don't see how they can get insurance and how they could pay the premiums.

Nice catch!